Red Hat GFS allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system on the SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and overhead of managing redundant data copies. Red Hat GFS has no single point of failure, is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications.

Red Hat GFS is tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and distributed through Red Hat Network. This simplifi es software installation, updates, and management. Applications such as Oracle 9i RAC, and workloads in cluster computing, file, web, and email serving become easier to manage and achieve higher throughput and availability with Red Hat GFS.

For customers with demanding file serving, Web serving, database, and grid/technical/scientifi c computing applications,

Red Hat GFS enables unprecedented application performance and scalability. Scaling to hundreds of servers and terabytes

of storage, it lets customers utilize cost-eff ective, highperformance “scale out” architectures rather than expensive

“scale up” architectures. GFS solves the scalability limits of traditional IP-based shared storage solutions. It achieves

signifi cant cost savings and simplifi es data management by eliminating the multiple data copies associated with nonshared storage environments. GFS is the most trusted Linux file storage platform for large-scale data environments requiring continuous data availability.

Scale out Linux clusters are becoming a key component in the enterprise IT infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, GFS,

and Cluster Suite provide an integrated software framework for providing data sharing between the large number of nodes

found in scale out clusters. Data sharing improves application performance and scalability, simplifies data management

using low-cost Linux hardware and storage area networks, and ensures continuous data availability for mission-critical

applications. Developed and supported by the open source community and Red Hat, GFS is the trusted cluster file system for large, scale out Linux clusters.

Traditional IP-based file servers provide a single server per file system name space, which can become a performance

bottleneck when accessing shared data. With Red Hat GFS, file servers can be clustered to provide shared, parallel access to a single file system namespace, increasing file serving performance and scalability, simplifying data management, and insuring continuous data availability.

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References:

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